#445 – The Spiritual Athlete with Richie Norton

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Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Can you be alpha, strong, agile, muscular, but connected, aware, flexible, in a state of flow? My awesome guest today Richie Norton believes you can, but few are, we are either power and muscle focused gym goers or yoga hippy types, perhaps there is a middle ground, one that can bring the body into its most awesome state, a state of slow, harmony, balance. Richie used to work as a PT in London but after burning out, getting frustrated and constantly battling injuries he decided enough was enough and now lives in a sheep field by the sea in Wales. Still coaching and creating awesome humans, he tells his story and shares his wisdom.

1:19 Introducing Richie
4:03 Rugby, Strength Training, Yoga - How do you get client buy in with such a varied background?
7:55 Why Yoga?
10:15 Finding the right teacher & learning from a point of care rather than punishment
15:07 Reflecting on a Rugby career full of injuries - What would you do differently if you did it again?
21:56 Spiritualness - How to find your version of it.
31:24 Why are you doing that? Does it make you happy?
35:40 Everyone’s on a separate mission. You do you.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Ben Cooper Radio, how and Earth are you doing?
0:03.2	I don't know if today's show is actually going to be a bit echoy.
0:06.2	I'm in London, I've got my microphone in a shoe, I fired up Skype, so we know that works, but I'm in a big meeting room so I hope it sounds
0:15.7	all right and but as you know this podcast is filmed in a very raw format in a very
0:20.9	unedited way so if it is like that I will apologize but it's what makes
0:25.0	it easy to do the show and have amazing guests on well today we've got another
0:29.3	amazing guest yeah let's intro that guest. So today's guest is someone who's worked in
0:37.3	professional sport. He's done the big macho thing and probably in a lot of people's eyes does a very unmatcho thing or that is the
0:47.4	stereotypes that we live in in the world of today but we will get into that. Welcome to the show from his brand that is The Strength Temple,
0:58.2	Richie Norton. Hello, mate. mate.
1:03.0	Just before we went on air we had the background noises of sheep.
1:08.0	I thought we're going to edit that bit out.
1:11.0	Yes, we did.
1:14.0	This happens to be a couple of lands cruising past the fence line.
1:19.0	You say cruising is if they're on like a sit-on lawn mower and they're just like meh maa maa.
1:24.6	They actually do mow my lawn when they escape the boundary the farmer lets them out
1:30.2	they actually couldn't just mow up my lawn it It's actually quite a touch, save a fortune,
1:34.4	and a gardener. But it wouldn't be Wales without sheep, right? But I just wasn't expecting to cruise past and
1:41.6	just be so vocal. It's not the case normally.
1:43.9	A few rabbits cruise about, but that's, I haven't seen the sheep in a while.
1:47.0	That's funny. We've got plenty of rabbits where I live and there's plenty of deer.
1:51.5	Sometimes I'll be working and out of my office a deer will just
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